PDP crisis: Sheriff can’t head ‘village meeting’ – National Vice Chairman, Ogidi

The South-South Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Emmanuel Ogidi, on Sunday said the National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff lacks the competence to head a village meeting, let alone a former ruling party.

Ogidi made the remark while reacting to Sheriff’s decision to walk out of a meeting convened by a former President, Goodluck Jonathan aimed at resolving the crisis currently rocking the party.

Explaining his decision to walk out on the former President, Sheriff had said he was shocked that he was refused the opportunity to preside over the meeting, since he was the he ad of the party.

But, addressing journalists in Abuja, Ogidi noted that the action of the former Borno State governor revealed the “character of Sheriff and spoke a lot about him”.

The South South Vice Chairman of the party maintained that Sheriff’s conduct on that occasion was not just a disrespect for Jonathan but a proof that he cannot be trusted.

Ogidi noted that Sheriff by exhibiting such action in the presence of Jonathan who granted him a waiver into the party was condemnable.

He said, “Sheriff showed that he is not a PDP member or a party man.
Sheriff did not know what PDP went through for 16 years.

“Who is Sheriff and when did he join PDP? It was the same Jonathan that he disrespected that day, who gave him a waiver to join.

“He is not a member of the party; he does not understand how the party works.
“The former president convened a meeting, and by his status and capacity, everybody responded.

“Former Senate Presidents, David Mark and Adophous Wabara and others, including former national chairmen, were all there. Who-is-who in PDP were there as well as the founding fathers of the party.

“If Sheriff was an intelligent man, he shouldn’t have done what he did. Even the small supporters he had, he disappointed them; some of them felt so bad.

“If he was a party man he wouldn’t have done that.

“Let us take for granted that we in PDP offended him, is that how to treat the party?
“I haven’t seen where a man is bigger than the party. Your community can offend you but you cannot do anything to your community.”